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W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby  Elliot Stanton
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The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Memory Survivalby  Steven Burton
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Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Second Chanceby  John Porter
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A young man spends a passionate night with a young woman, then struggles to persuade her to give him a second chance.

Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pyrisousby  Allen Mummert
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A writer's reality unravels into a disturbing virtual labyrinth, forcing him to confront the fabricated nature of his existence before he's permanently consumed by the digital abyss.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Sex Shoesby  Ron Brawer
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When an aging Casanova hooks up with a young Louboutins-loving lawyer, past follies surface -- with Fellini-esque consequences.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Kingdom for a Horseby  Rocco Simonelli
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In MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE, an African-American actor portraying Richard the Third on stage in Central Park learns his mother is dying uptown and races to reach her at Harlem Hospital before it's too late. His increasingly desperate and futile attempts to secure a taxi trigger chaos and violence.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Day Careby  Brandi Self
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A cantankerous toddler learns about love, death, and loss when he visits day care for the first time.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby  John Porter
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A young woman teases her fianc until she discovers he's willing to do almost anything to make her happy.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Finding Footprintsby  Erik Daniel Shein
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When a hearing-impaired girl discovers a teenage Bigfoot destined to guard a magical forest, they must forge an unlikely friendship to protect a world that doesn't believe in either of them.

Genre: Animation
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Father of Thingsby  Chris Fell
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In this award-winning war drama, two enemy soldiers try to brutally kill each other on the battlefield. However, when both become incapacitated, they cooperate to survive. Their dialogue between camaraderie and cynicism highlights the absurd "logic" of war and propaganda, while offering a glimmer of hope to reconcile differences. Just a glimmer.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
October 31stby  Doug J Robbins
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A legendary serial killer named Ben Snyder, the Green Hollow Killer, has returned to kill again on Halloween night.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Airby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
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A high-school radio crew hijacks an "unused" emergency frequencythen a calm voice begins broadcasting their deaths for tomorrow.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She Curses Like a Sailorby  Micheline Birger
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A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Too crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America off the hook ? (Copyright Wash. DC) A play/ teleplay.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
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A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
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A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Walking Libertyby  Jordan Baines
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After shepherding in millions of people over the decades, the Statue of Liberty decides to step off her pedestal to take a walking tour of America.

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirror Imageby  Bill Cornelius
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Pete discovers a strange mirror in the back of an antique store that has the power to transport him across time and space... against his will.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Gameby  John Klawitter
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Pregnant, Sandy has to give away her baby before she is executed tomorrow.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
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A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
King Sizeby  Paul Weidknecht
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Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You Get What You Deserveby  Jane Tumminello
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A self-centered young guy suffers the consequences when he cruelly breaks up with his girlfriend over the phone.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby  J. J. Hillard
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A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby  Elliot Stanton
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A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby  Marc Prey
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While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
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When terrorized by his wife's vengeful spirit, a man must face the consequences of his actions.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
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A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
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A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
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In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby  Lawrence Riggins
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True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond Avalonby  Edward Ybarra
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Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Her Faceby  Marc Prey
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Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.

Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Listening Roomby  Dewayne
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A hospice nurse cleaning out a dead patient's house brings home an old baby monitor that suddenly begins speaking with the woman's voice. When the voice warns her that her abusive ex is outside and urges her to fight back, Mara must decide whether the dead woman is protecting heror preparing her to become the next voice on the monitor.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Macyby  Larry E. Coleman
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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
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A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
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An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Purgatorioby  Hakan Ünal
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After waking in a desolate purgatory with no memory of his death, a former SS officer must confront the victims of his past or remain imprisoned in an afterlife built from his own crimes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Flingby  Jill Martin
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Late December 1915 onboard the troop ship SS Pretorian, a young lad meets a battle-weary soldier returning from the Western Front who teaches him about heritage.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gagging For Itby  Barry Staff
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A budding mute and blind standup needs to get through an audition to prove the act will work.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ethan Watkinsby  Peter
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Ethan Watkins has fallen for Patty Hobbs, but two things stand in the way to true love: 1. Terry Hobbs, Patty's abusive husband. 2. plus the overriding fact that Ethan is dead, but little things like this won't stand in Ethan's way.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Nothingby  Lamar D. Vine
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When a grieving retiree installs an AI life coach to escape crushing loneliness after divorce and loss, he must confront buried rage and rediscover purpose through writing before the seductive voice consumes his identityor lose his last chance at redemption.

Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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